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Year in review: top 10 Ethical Nag posts in 2011

Yes, little Nags-in-Training, it is indeed that time once again when all navel-gazing pundits whip up their Top 10 or Best Of lists for the year that is quickly passing.

Happy New Year to all my readers, to those of you who choose to share what you like here with friends, family or perfect strangers, to those who take the time to leave your astute, challenging or sometimes downright funny comments here, and particularly to my loyal subscribers who follow The Nag via RSS feed, Twitter, or email subscriptions (you too can do this just by clicking the appropriate Follow The Nag buttons on the right sidebar of the homepage). I sincerely appreciate your company here!

Now here’s that Top 10 list of the most widely read Nags for 2011:

1. Microwave Popcorn: (Still) Bad for You(this article is almost three times more popular than the second-most-read piece here – who knew that so many people eat, or even care about, microwave popcorn?)

4. Why the Olympics Are Bad Business(okay, I could understand why this one ranked #7 on last year’s most-read list – I wrote it about our 2010 Vancouver Olympics – but this year, too? Could be the growing interest in next year’s London games?)

I absolutely love my WordPress stats page here on The Nag. It’s a behind-the-scenes daily web tool that lets me monitor which articles you are reading most often, which external links you are clicking while reading those articles, and even what search words or phrases you have typed into Google to land here in the first place. Fascinating! For example, the top referring sites last year were:

Average monthly readership has more than doubled compared to this time last year. Most of you are from the United States, with Canada and the U.K. not far behind. There were 89 new posts here in 2011, growing the total archive of Nags to 238 posts.

Once again, THANK YOU SO MUCH for your engagement in what engages me, too. Happy 2012 to you!